Comosi Wash: Blancan, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Paenemarmota sp.
Hibbard and Schultz 1948
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said to be "P. barbouri" by Repenning 1962 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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includes "Asinus pons" of Repenning 1962 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Lamini indet.
Webb 1965
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includes "Tanupolama cf. blancoensis" of Repenning 1962 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Lynx sp.
Kerr 1792
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
said by Werdelin 1985 to be close to "F." rexroadensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Chasmaporthetes sp.
Hay 1921
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= Chasmaporthetes ossifragus
Hay 1921
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Kurten and Werdelin 1988 | |||||||||
"C. sp." of Repenning 1962, Berta 1981 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Santa Cruz |
Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.8° North, 110.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as: | UALP 9 | ||
Database number: | 19648 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2252. | E. H. Lindsay and N. T. Tessman. 1974. Cenozoic Vertebrate Localities and Faunas in Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Sciences 9(1):3-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2194 | B. Kurten and L. Werdelin. 1988. A Review of the Genus Chasmaporthetes Hay, 1921 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(1):46-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
58819 | J. H. Quinn. 1958. New Pleistocene Asinus from Southwestern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 32(3):603-610 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |